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Speaker 1: Mayor Smith is an Irish heiress worth millions. Let's get started.

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Speaker 1: She was so majestic, she was royal, and I was

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Speaker 1: Mayor is dating a powerful Los Angeles politician, and she's

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Speaker 1: Ireland over a twenty five million Euro inheritance. That's thirty

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Speaker 1: Did you hear that story too? I warned Mayor that

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Speaker 1: to get her disinherited and keep her millions for themselves,

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Speaker 1: But she laughs it off until one day you have

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Press want to accept you were right. I was

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Speaker 1: Islands trying to get me Disinheritance. I'm Jonathan Walton and

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Speaker 1: this is Queen of the Con Episode two, The Inheritance.

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Speaker 1: I'm at work when I get that jailhouse phone call,

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Speaker 1: so like sitting next to you, and you're just like

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Speaker 1: I'm like what Evan Goldstein and I are producing a

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Speaker 1: lie of and you were you witnessed that phone call? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was. I was sitting right next to you, and

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Speaker 1: become more than best friends. We'd become family. This is

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Speaker 1: like your sister calling you from jail, but from the

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Speaker 1: And as Evan will go on to witness firsthand, there

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a bumping nuts enough to give

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Speaker 1: And then it became this thing where it's like you

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Speaker 1: I'd never build anyone out of jail before Mayor's bail

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Speaker 1: But before you knew for sure, Mayor told me, yeah,

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Speaker 1: hosted by Me Jonathan Walton. Executive producers Jonathan Walton for

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Speaker 1: Nathan Walton Productions and Eliza Rosen for a y R Media.

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Speaker 1: Written by Jonathan Walton, Consulting producer Evan Goldstein, Senior Associate

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Speaker 1: producer Eric Newman. Sound designed by baked ZD Media, mixed

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Speaker 1: and mastered by Elliott Herman. Audio engineering by Elliott Herman,

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Speaker 1: Studio engineering by Chris McMasters. Voice acting performed by Kevin

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Speaker 1: Raymond and Amy Phillips. Legal counsel for a y R Media,

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Speaker 1: Gianni Douglas, Executive producer for I Heart Radio, Chandler Mainz